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Rhetoric, paradox, and the movement for women's ordination in the Roman Catholic Church
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The movement for women's ordination in the Roman Catholic Church sharpened and intensified perceptions of the paradoxical situation facing Catholic women as mentioned in this paper and women who are unhappy with the Church's po...Abstract:
The movement for women's ordination in the Roman Catholic Church sharpened and intensified perceptions of the paradoxical situation facing Catholic women. Women who are unhappy with the Church's po...read more
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Organizational rhetoric and the practice of criticism
George Cheney,Jill J. McMillan +1 more
TL;DR: This paper argued that contemporary life is so unavoidably affected by the organizations to which we belong that it has become necessary to rethink our traditional understanding of both individual and collective rhetoric, and that it is necessary to re-think our traditional understandings of both individuals and groups.
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Mimetic and dissent conditions in organizational rhetoric
TL;DR: In this paper, two situational constraints are examined, a dissent condition which fosters tolerance for dissent, and a mimetic condition, which inhibits dissent, leading to a nexus of the two fields.
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The critic as empath: Moving away from totalizing theory
TL;DR: The critic as empath: Moving away from totalizing theory as discussed by the authors The critic as empathic critic is a classic example of the critic-as-empathizer paradigm, and the critic as a critic as an empathic person.
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Reflections on healing: framing strategies utilized by acquaintance rape survivors
TL;DR: This article examined the stories acquaintance rape victims tell through semi-structured interviews and used strategies of paradox management to assess blame, define, and reframe their experiences, which can assist social support networks and law enforcement professionals in identifying the communicative strategies of female victims of varying types of violence.
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The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820–1860
TL;DR: The women's magazines, gift annuals and religious literature of the nineteenth century, were the hostage in the home as discussed by the authors, not only to fortune, but also to all the values which he held so dear and treated so lightly.
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Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation
TL;DR: The problem, the purpose and the method after the death of God the Father exorcising evil from Eve -the fall into freedom beyond Chistolatry -a world without models transvaluation of values -the end of phallic morality the bonds of freedom -sisterhood as antichurch sisterhood as cosmic covenant as mentioned in this paper.
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IN MEMORY OF HER a feminist theological reconstruction of Christian origins
TL;DR: The women who played an important role in the origins of Christianity are discussed in this article, where the authors bring to our consciousness women's roles in the creation of the Church and its history.
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The rhetoric of women's liberation: An oxymoron
TL;DR: The rhetoric of women's liberation merits separate critical treatment because it is a unique genre of rhetoric as discussed by the authors and its distinctive substantive characteristics arise from the peculiarly intense moral conflict it generates so that moderate and reformist options are closed to feminist advocates.